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DESCRIPTION:Imagine each breath an utterance: in and out\, a repetition of
equally sensual and semantic force. In Mouth to Mouth\, Slavs and Tatars m
id-career survey\, the traditional flow of information and affect is scram
bled and squeezed through organs\, orifices and body parts not usually des
ignated for such use.\nDefining an area “east of the former Berlin Wall an
d west of the Great Wall of China” as their remit\, Slavs and Tatars repea
tedly creolize\, craft and collide a political and imagined geography to t
opple our brittle notions of identity\, language\, and beliefs. Throughout
their ten-year practice\, the artists have turned to Turkic language poli
tics\, medieval advice literature\, the relationship between Iran and Pola
nd\, and transliteration\, to name but a few of their areas of research. A
region sandwiched between empires (Russian\, Byzantine\, Persian\, to nam
e a few)\, ideologies (Communism and political Islam)\, not to mention the
Abrahamic faiths\, Eurasia becomes a foil to an understanding of ourselve
s as multiple subjectivities.\nThe artists’ work—from sculptures to lectur
e performances\, installations to publications—similarly overturn the trad
itional hierarchies of understanding\, seeing\, and listening. Slavs and T
atars are keen to free knowledge from the Enlightenment confines of the mi
nd. Their 'Kitab Kebab' series offers a digestive approach to reading as o
pposed to the strictly analytical. A sculpture often leads to a book to be
read on a carpet that drops us off at the feet of an old man riding backw
ards on his donkey. \nTranslation\, in the artists’ practice\, signals not
only an exchange of meaning between languages but also a transmogrificati
on of experience\, from the written page to the woven carpet\, from the ey
es to the ears and back to the mouth. The conversion of scripts\, the rend
ering of rituals become so many forms of hospitality: Jesus is praised in
Arabic\, often considered the sacred language of Islam\; a Miłosz poem is
sung in Persian\, sharing the best practices of poetry as resistance to au
tocracy.\nIn the title of the exhibition and throughout the works\, the me
thod of resuscitation shifts from urgency and expediency into a means of u
nion and trade. Mouth to mouth—an act of desperate measures—activates hist
ory\, while reading is returned to its collective\, sacral origins.\nCCA U
jazdowski Castle débuts Slavs and Tatars’ mid-career survey\, the first ti
me a selection of works across the artists’ various cycles of research are
presented: Régions d'être\, The Faculty of Substitution\, Friendship of N
ations\, Kidnapping Mountains\, and Pickle Politics. Mouth to Mouth will t
ravel to the Pejman Foundation in Tehran in April 2017\, Salt Galata in Is
tanbul in June 2017\, CAC Vilnius in September 2017\, Museum of Contempora
ry Art\, Belgrade in November 2017 and the Albertinum in Dresden in Winter
2017–2018. On the occasion\, a monograph will be published by Walter Köni
g\, the first on the artist collective\, after eight publications of their
own.
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SUMMARY:Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art: Mouth to Mouth
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